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The Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay

https://allianceforthebay.org

http://www.agwt.org/index.htm

The American Ground Water Trust is a not-for-profit education organization incorporated in 1986 and headquartered in Concord, New Hampshire, USA. The Trust, an independent authority on the hydrologic, economic and environmental significance of ground water, combines technical expertise with a track record of networking and communication skills.

Bay Journal

http://www.bayjournal.com/

Cacapon Institute

www.cacaponinstitute.org

Cacapon and Lost Rivers Land Trust

http://www.cacapon.org/

http://www.canaanvi.org/

Canaan Valley Institute is a nonprofit, non-advocacy organization committed to helping communities build their capacity to address environmental or economic problems by implementing locally determined solutions.States homepage. Since 1995, CVI has fostered local decision-making in support of sustainable communities throughout the Mid-Atlantic Highlands of West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Maryland.

http://www.cwp.org/

Founded in 1992, the Center for Watershed Protection is a non-profit 501(c)3 corporation that provides local governments, activists, and watershed organizations around the country with the technical tools for protecting some of the nation’s most precious natural resources: our streams, lakes and rivers. The Center has developed and disseminated a multi-disciplinary strategy to watershed protection that encompasses watershed planning, watershed restoration, stormwater management, watershed research, better site design, education and outreach, and watershed training.

The Chesapeake Bay Foundation

http://www.cbf.org/site/PageServer?pagename=homev3

The Chesapeake Bay Interpretive Buoy System

buoybay.noaa.gov

http://www.chesapeakebay.net/

The Chesapeake Bay Program is a unique regional partnership that has led and directed the restoration of the Chesapeake Bay since 1983. The Chesapeake Bay Program partners include the states of Maryland, Pennsylvania and Virginia; the District of Columbia; the Chesapeake Bay Commission, a tri-state legislative body; the Environmental Protection Agency, representing the federal government; and participating citizen advisory groups.

Chesapeake Bay Trust

http://www.cbtrust.org/

http://www.ctic.purdue.edu/CTIC%20HOME/

Established in 1982, the Conservation Technology Information Center (CTIC) is a national, nonprofit public-private partnership working to promote the enhancement of soil and water quality by equipping agriculture with realistic, affordable, and integrated solutions. CTIC envisions agriculture using environmentally beneficial and economically viable natural resource systems.

Environmental Concern, Inc.

http://www.wetland.org/

http://www.freshwaterinstitute.org/

Located near Shepherdstown, WV, the Conservation Fund’s Freshwater Institute combines applied research, engineering design, and economic development strategies to demonstrate a new vision of conservation that achieves a balance between economic growth and environmental goals.

http://www.cacaponriver.org/

The Friends of the Cacapon River serve as a resource to our communities on issues effecting the Cacapon River watershed.

Grand Caverns (VA)

 Living Cave/Living River Program  

http://www.groundwater.org/

The Groundwater Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to educating and motivating people to care for and about groundwater.

http://www.groundwater.org/kids/

A site devoted to teaching kids about groundwater in a variety of ways.  Site contains lists of groundwater definitions, activities, educational coloring sheets, etc.

Growing Native

http://www.growingnative.org/

http://www.potomacriver.org/

The Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin (ICPRB) is an interstate compact commission established by Congress in 1940 to help the Potomac basin states and the federal government to enhance, protect, and conserve the water and associated land resources of the Potomac River basin through regional and interstate cooperation.

The Kuse Farm and Nature Preserve

http://kuse.medford.k12.wi.us/Plants/Trees/index.htm

Maryland Association for Environmental and Outdoor Education

http://www.maeoe.org/

The Opequon Creek Project Team

http://www.opequoncreek.org/

http://www.potomac.org/

The Potomac Conservancy conducts a comprehensive land protection program; develops and implements a variety of land and water restoration projects; provides counseling and other conservation support services for more than 70 other land trusts across four states and the District of Columbia; provides meaningful, hands-on volunteer and education programs for adults and young people to foster a stewardship ethic; and partners with other land trusts, conservation organizations, and local, state, and federal agencies to more efficiently and expeditiously achieve land protection and restoration goals.

http://www.potomacriverkeeper.org/

Potomac Riverkeeper was formed by citizens and conservation leaders out of concern for the need to respond to multiple threats with a single independent advocate dedicated to protecting The Potomac River and its tributaries. Their MISSION is to protect and restore the Potomac River, from its headwaters in West Virginia to the Chesapeake Bay, through citizen action, advocacy and enforcement.

http://www.potomacpartnership.org

The Potomac Watershed Partnership (PWP) is providing a new opportunity to enhance the quality of life for all creatures that depend on the Potomac River basin. The Partnership is one of 15 such partnerships nationwide that are bringing public and private organizations together to protect the nation’s most vital watersheds.

http://www.rivernetwork.org/

River Network's Mission is to help people understand, protect and restore rivers and their watersheds. They envision a nation whose rivers are cared for by those who use them and live in their watershed. Their constituency is comprised of grassroots river and watershed conservation organizations, public agencies, tribal governments and coalitions, and other working to save freshwater ecosystems.

Sleepy Creek Watershed Association

http://www.sleepycreekwatershedassociation.org/

Stewards of the Potomac Highlands

http://www.potomacstewards.com/

Trout Unlimited

http://www.tu.org

http://www.fs.fed.us/

US Forest Service

http://www.wv.nrcs.usda.gov/

In 2003, the WV office of the USDA-NRCS joined with 30 other state and federal water quality agencies in West Virginia to sign a resolution to carry out a cooperative watershed approach through the West Virginia Watershed Management Framework. The vision of the Framework is coordinating efforts to enhance, preserve, and protect the state’s water quality for the benefit of all citizens. The benefits include maintaining public health; providing diversified recreational, educational, and scientific uses; and allowing economic growth while maintaining ecological and biological integrity.

http://www.epa.gov/r5water/cwa.htm

USEPA - Clean Water Act Web Site. Growing public awareness and concern for controlling water pollution led to enactment of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972. As amended in 1977, this law became commonly known as the Clean Water Act. The Act established the basic structure for regulating discharges of pollutants into the waters of the United States. It gave EPA the authority to implement pollution control programs such as setting wastewater standards for industry. The Clean Water Act also continued requirements to set water quality standards for all contaminants in surface waters.

http://www.epa.gov/surf/

Surf Your Watershed is a service to help you locate, use, and share environmental information about your state and watershed.

http://www.epa.gov/owow/index.html

We all live in a watershed -- the area that drains to a common waterway, such as a stream, lake, estuary, wetland, or ultimately the ocean -- and our individual actions can directly affect it. EPA and its partners are working together on a watershed basis to protect the nation's water resources.

http://www.epa.gov/watertrain/index.htm

USEPA Watershed Academy Web offers a variety of self-paced training modules that represent a basic and broad introduction to the watershed management field. The modules are organized by six themes. Modules vary in the time they to complete, from ½ hour to 2 hours.

http://chesapeake.usgs.gov/overview.html

The U. S. Geological Survey (USGS), one of the original CBP Federal partners, has the critical role to provide unbiased scientific information that is utilized to formulate, implement, and assess the effectiveness of restoration goals. The USGS Chesapeake Bay Science Program is meeting these needs through a combination of research, monitoring, modeling, and interaction with the partners in the CBP and the Department of Interior (DOI).

http://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis

These pages provide access to water-resources data collected at approximately 1.5 million sites in all 50 States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. Online access to this data is organized around the categories listed to the left. The USGS investigates the occurrence, quantity, quality, distribution, and movement of surface and underground waters and disseminates the data to the public, State and local governments, public and private utilities, and other Federal agencies involved with managing our water resources.

http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/index.html

The U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) Water Science for Schools web site offers information on many aspects of water, along with pictures, data, maps, and an interactive center where you can give opinions and test your water knowledge.

http://www.mywatershedwatch.org/

West Virginia Conservation Agency

http://www.wvca.us/

West Virginia Chesapeake Bay Program

http://www.wvca.us/bay/index.cfm

http://www.wvrivers.org/home

West Virginia Rivers Coalition mission is to seek the conservation and restoration of West Virginia's exceptional rivers and streams.

http://www.wvdnr.gov/Main.shtm

WV Division of Natural Resources

http://www.wvdep.org/item.cfm?ssid=11

WV Division of Environmental Protection, Division of Water and Waste Management's mission is to preserve and enhance West Virginia's watersheds for the benefit and safety of all. The Division of Water and Waste Management strives to meet its mission through implementation of programs controlling surface and groundwater pollution caused by industrial and municipal discharges as well as oversight of construction, operation and closure of hazardous and solid waste and underground storage tank sites. In addition, the Division works to protect, restore, and enhance West Virginia's watersheds through comprehensive watershed assessments, groundwater monitoring, wetlands preservation, inspection and enforcement of hazardous and solid waste disposal and proper operation of underground storage tanks.

West Virginia Save Our Streams